By:  Sibley, Nelson, Haywood                          S.B. No. 1859
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the creation of the Texas Woman's University System.
 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-3           SECTION 1.  The chapter heading to Chapter 107, Education
 1-4     Code, is amended to read as follows:
 1-5                CHAPTER 107.  TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY SYSTEM
 1-6           SECTION 2.  Subchapter A, Chapter 107, Education Code, is
 1-7     amended by adding Section 107.001 to read as follows:
 1-8           Sec. 107.001.  TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY SYSTEM.  (a)  The
 1-9     Texas Woman's University System hereby created, in its entirety as
1-10     one appropriations agency, is composed of all those units,
1-11     divisions, institutions, and other agencies of higher education
1-12     presently under the governance, control, jurisdiction, and
1-13     management of the board of regents of Texas Woman's University.
1-14           (b)  The governance, control, jurisdiction, organization, and
1-15     management of the Texas Woman's University System and each
1-16     component of the system is hereby vested in the present board of
1-17     regents of Texas Woman's University, which will hereinafter be
1-18     known and designated as the board of regents of Texas Woman's
1-19     University System.
1-20           SECTION 3.  Section 107.42, Education Code, is amended to
1-21     read as follows:
1-22           Sec. 107.42.  STAFF.  The board shall appoint a chancellor or
1-23     president of the university system and other officers and employees
1-24     of the system and its components it deems proper and shall fix
 2-1     their salaries.  The board shall make rules and regulations for the
 2-2     government of the [university's] staff of the system and its
 2-3     components as it deems advisable.
 2-4           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-5     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-6     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-7     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-8     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-9     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-10     passage, and it is so enacted.